Another #etmooc task under my belt … my first storify. I decided to storify some of the tweets from the past week that demonstrate my PLN at work via twitter. I get so much from interacting with others on twitter – ideas, educational conversation and banter, feedback, affirmation and challenge, professional reading and even new shopping sites!…
Out of the Pool; Into the Ocean
Blogging Resources and Best Practices
I have been blogging for about three years, but it has only been since I joined etmooc that I have blogged with any frequency. Last year I mostly blogged to share information and resources from professional development sessions and to share my photos.…
Snapguide: a step by step guide for teaching and learning
Out and about with the iPads
We started the week in Yr 7 with the “Angles in the Real world’ task. Out in the yard looking for examples of different types of angles, including complementary and supplementary angles to photograph was not only an engaging activity for the students, but valuable formative assessment. …
14th tool :anxiety-story-board.png
Networking in My Zone of Proximal Development
A story with perspective… in time
There are many ways to tell a story. One such way is to use time in telling a story. We are all familiar with time even though for some it moves extremely faster and for others incredibly slow. Time is something we use to connect with other people. …
The Mona Lisa Effect: or Why Da Vinci Would Have Loved Skateboarding
First off, I’m sticking with this title, even though there’s some buzz on the Internet about a very different sort of “Mona Lisa Effect”.
Most of us are quite familiar with the illusive and exquisite Leonardo Da Vinci painting “La Gioconda“, but we forget to realize that – at least in the artist’s eyes- she was never finished.…